Thought I'd put the word out that www.chainblx.io has some pretty good bounties (like $1000) for finding falsehoods in whitepapers and news stories.   If you're interested in bounty hunting this appears to be legit.

BTC is following a classic pattern that we have seen with many, many 'hot' products.   You can take a value chart for Beenie Babies and lay it over BTC and you'll see a striking resemblance.  

Its value is purely speculative as to whether or not it will ever gain adoption.  I've loved BTC for a while now, but I'm out.  The handwriting is on the wall folks.

What do you all think about a strategy of just investing a little bit in each of the top 100 coins, in hopes that one takes off?  Seems like downside risk would be minimal. 

This just in from Coindesk:

https://www.coindesk.com/security-settles-ethereum-first-kind-blockchain-transaction/

It's a first-of-a-kind transaction on blockchain.

I think the experiment was necessary, even though it is obvious that a security will settle first using blockchain technology in the after market.  Additionally, the test was run over a decentralized blockchain, but the whole set-up of the different parts of the system made it very centralized and excludes third parties entering the system. But all in all it was a experiment well done, showing the future potential of blockchain technology.

It illustrates the vision of ChainBLX to scale such transactions to create a completely decentralized economy, which will include trading of digitalized stocks, fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, options directly with each other, without the additional step of going through the traditional banking system.